from Jim Hall:
> I agree that the floppy case is an edge case. I am not too worried
> about that. From how I understand people using FreeDOS, most users are
> either installing FreeDOS on some modern machine ("I just bought a new
> machine, I'll install FreeDOS on the old one") or installing FreeDOS
> in a VM (such as VMWare or VirtualPC or Linux DOSemu). Not too many
> older machines are still around, and in working order.
> Let's remember some CPU history: the '486 was released in the late
> 1990s (discontinued after about 2006 or 2007, I think.) The '386 was
> throughout the 1990s. The '286 was the last pre-CD computer, and that
> was early 1980s to early 1990s. How many twenty-year-old machines are
> still in use by people who aren't avid collectors?
Most older personal computers have had the motherboard go bad, or the hard
drives or hard-drive controller, or the power supply quit, etc.
But I thought the '486 was released around middle 1990, the '386 dates to the
(late?) 1980s.
A CD-ROM drive could be installed to a '286 but was not bootable. I installed
a CD-ROM in a '486 dating to 1995, but that was not bootable.
That '486's hard-drive controllers stopped working, gave severe misreadings on
the hard drive, and eventually the power supply apparently quit, would not
power on.
Repair cost would have been far more than that computer was worth, so all that
was left to do was recycle.
Tom
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